Florida-based trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. had a perfect Memorial Day at Santa Anita last year, winning the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes with Be Your Best and the Grade 2 Hollywood Gold Cup with Skippylongstocking.

With different runners, Joseph will have starters in the same races this year on May 25.

Joseph said on Thursday that Forged Steel, the winner of an allowance race at Oaklawn Park on May 2, will start in the $200,000 Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles on dirt, while Hang the Moon will run in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf for fillies and mares.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Mr. A. P., second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar last October at 20-1, has resumed workouts at Santa Anita after an extended rest.

Trained by Vladimir Cerin for David and Holly Wilson, Mr. A. P. worked three furlongs 36.80 seconds on Monday. Cerin said he timed Mr. A. P. galloping out a half-mile in 49.80 seconds.

“It will be the summer before he runs,” Cerin said on Wednesday. “We’ll take it one step at a time. He’ll work five-eighths once, and maybe we’ll make a plan.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella plans to have starters in the three major stakes at Santa Anita on May 25 – the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile, Grade 1 Gamely Stakes, and Grade 2 Hollywood Gold Cup.

The May 25 program is the most lucrative of the track’s spring meeting, which began in mid-April and continues through June 14.

The rich allowance races, they just keep on coming Friday at Churchill – three of them, worth a total of about $416,000.

Race 6 is a second-level allowance with an $80,000 claiming option restricted to older fillies and mares and carded for 1 3/8 miles on grass. Argentine import Ceniza Pampa looks live here.

Race 8 is a third-level allowance with a $100,000 claiming option, also restricted to older fillies and mares and carded for 1 1/16 miles on dirt. Peignor is the pick.

The Grade 1-winning turf filly Lush Lips probably won’t race again until later this summer, trainer Brendan Walsh said Monday.

Lush Lips developed into the leading North American 3-year-old grass filly of 2025 and stood poised to add the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley to her résumé on April 11. Instead, Walsh had to scratch her with what he thought would be a relatively minor issue, but the problem, while not compromising in the long term, has persisted.

Somewhere between getting rock-star treatment on television and social media, throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium, and sending her Converse kicks, custom-made for the first Saturday in May, to be displayed at the Kentucky Derby Museum, Cherie DeVaux still has a vast stable of horses to train.

The 2-year-olds have started arriving en masse, many bound for bucolic isolation at the Pea Patch, Ellis Park, and then there’s the minor task of training Derby winner Golden Tempo toward the Belmont Stakes.

Hall of Fame jockey Joel Rosario is returning to familiar surroundings in an effort to revive his career.

Rosario, a former leading rider at Del Mar, Hollywood Park and Santa Anita in the late 2000s and early 2010s, will begin riding on a full-time basis at Santa Anita on Sunday.

Rosario, 41, is booked on four mounts, including Boss Sully in the day’s main race – the $100,000 Siren Lure Stakes for turf sprinters.

“I’m ready for a change,” Rosario said in a phone interview earlier this week.